well i took the battery to auto zone since dey chk it and dey told me it needed like 30% charge so dey charged it. when i went home to try it the car turned on once den it went back to not starting again. and yes please if you could get pictures that would be better n i would appreciate it.

when i get home from work i will have my bf try these things. normally i would go to a mechanic but im on a budget until like da end of sept and i dont want the car just to sit der like dat

thanks

 

oh sorry i forgot to say it is a v6 and also it did have a check engine light on i dont remember the code but the guy that looked at it told me it gave him the o2 sensor code, he said that i either needed to fix the o2 sensor or the catalyst. he said the only thing that does is make u waste more gas after a while and to fix it before i go to emission so i havent fixed it since my plates expire on july 2011. can this be the issue ?

 

See if you can get the codes. They are often the key to what is going wrong...

 

Cat and 02 sensor codes will not cause it to not start. Check fuel pressure

 

ill see if i can get the family mechanic to get the codes again ..

and alright thanks thats what dey told me since i dont drive it dat much i wanted to hold off on fixin the catalyst. when i get home i will have them look at the battery voltage and also the fuel pressure.

 

If its a family mechanic that has the scanner. Then see if it can monitor fuel fuel pressure(mine does) then all he has to do is turn the key on to start while cranking to see if fuel pressure come up. The sensor is in the fuel rail that the ecu reads

 

Iz dar beez aneese updaz on dis?


sorry I had to axe, I am still betting a battery issue.....

 

Rick, you didn't disappoint us. That would be my guess also, at least as a starting point. If ms sanchez can get the trunk open so somebody can jump start the car to rule out a battery problem. Then they can go down the fuel pressure path per BRUTAL.

 

but if i got the battery re-charged and dey said it was a good battery can they be wrong can it still be a bad battery ? and we were going to try the fuses but no we still cant get the trunk to open so i gotta wait till someone opens it. its probably going to have to wait until this weekend till i can get someone to come over and do it.

 

If you can't get the trunk open, how are you accessing the battery to charge it?

 

they took the battery out from the inside like the seats were opened. but the person that did dat doesnt want to mess with the fuses until the trunk is open because he doesnt want to burn dem or cause something worst to the car :\

 

So I guess you're not in a rush to fix it?

 

How come they didn't pop open the trunk by using the panic handle inside the trunk? That would have been a lot easier and you could have tried to jump start the car.

 

Mike, I axed dat ons da' firsss page

 

well no because i am currently using my other car but I do want it fixed because i dont want to lose the money i put into it supposely i was going to use this car in case my other one failed but i gues i was wrong

and the panic handle inside the truck didnt work. we tried the keyhole on top of the plated wont budge either. I have no idea what happed to dis car

 

oops i meant on the keyhole on top of the plates,

but i will update by this weekend (sooner if we can get the trunk to open) and see if they could get it to run or not and what they do to it.

thanks for the help im getting from all of u. I do appreciate it btw.

 

Spray WD 40 or PB Blaster into the trunk keyhole as Brutal stated! Do it a couple of times over the course of a few days! It will unseize.

 

I do have a 2000 got me cars xup!! On my car the latch, key and button are all attached to the lid of the trunk. If you have access to the trunk from the rear seat you need to look the left of the trunk (from the back seat looking into the trunk) and on the hinge for the trunk lid you will see a taped bundle of wire. This bundle has the control wire to the latch solenoid and the trunk open/close switch. Now the way I see it you can unwrap the wire bundle and try to provide power to the solenoid, however, I think the solenoid is dead and that is why it is not responding. The second option and I think the best is to pull the interior trunk lining down or cut a large opening at the latch area. I feel that exposing the latch mechanism you can use a screwdriver to trip and unlatch the trunk.

 

I was reading in one of the threads where someone was having issues with their 2000 Stype it would misfire and when driven it would stall and dey were told they needed to change the #6 cylinder or coil. Before this happened to my car where it stopped turning on it would also stall when driven could this be the same issue with mines? If so where is the #6 cylinder at in the car?

 

Before going off on a coil tangent I would recommend trying to jump start your vehicle. You may have to get some extra long jumper cables in order to get from your battery in the trunk to the other vehicle, assuming you haven't been able to open the trunk per Gus's advice. What you want to do is to confirm the battery is the cause or eliminate it and try another path. If still no success, then I recommend going down the fuel pressure path per BRUTAL.